Import events from another iPhoto library?

I recently went on vacation, and took my laptop with. During the trip I downloaded the photos from our camera's SD cards, but did not delete the photos, so we had a backup on the laptop and on the cameras. The events came in with no issues to the laptop. They're nicely organized and I have properly lablled them so we know what is form where...
When I got home I took the SD cards and downloaded the photos to my Desktop Mac, but it was a different story. It downloaded the photos from the SD cards, but duplicated numerous events and made it very hard to orgaize.
For example one event is labelled "July 32, 2012' and another "July 23-24, 2012". The latter consists of all the photos from the earlier event plus two photos taken on the 24th.
I have confirmed that iPhoto did indeed duplicate the downloads, by searching for and finding the original JPG files with the find command in Terminal:
find ./ -name DSCN1219* -print
.//Pictures/iPhoto Library/Masters/2012/07/28/20120728-141002/DSCN1219.JPG
.//Pictures/iPhoto Library/Masters/2012/07/28/20120728-164601/DSCN1219.JPG
This is the same photo.
What I'd like to do is just delete all the events from my Desktop and simply import the much better organized events from my laptop. Both are running the same version of iPhoto.

If you want to move Events, plus all associated metadata and versions then you'll need to use
iPhoto Library Manager for the job.
If you have the most recent versions of iPhoto and Aperture you can also do this via Aperture.
Regards
TD

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